Quigley's Cabinet

Being a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my health, having been diagnosed with MS in 1990. "Satisfying my morbid curiosity and yours..."

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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Mammoth graveyard

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First, the bones of a female mammoth dubbed "Vika" were found at the site in 2009 . Now, the fossilized remains of up ...

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Mammoth maybe

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Today, something a little more lighthearted. And about woolly mammoths, which I love! In addition to owning a mammoth tooth and some mammoth...

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Follow-ups

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Follow-ups 12/9/09 Reader Megan brought this to my attention: a mutant parakeet - the opposite of the bald parrot pictured in this post! And...

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Follow-ups

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Aquaria 11/23/09 Valencia, Spain, boasts not the largest tank, but the largest aquarium in Europe, the Oceanografic . Stone/house 11/19/09 ...

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

More mammoths

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Back in October 2007, Daisy the dachshund found one heck of a bone! She found this 2 million-year-old mammoth bone embedded in the sand of t...

Friday, October 24, 2008

Woolly mammoth

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Next year for Halloween, BeBe (my scooter) and I are going to transform ourselves into a woolly mammoth! It's hard to believe that the...

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Quigley's Cabinet: Chris Quigley has been reviewing morbid books since receiving an MA in 2007 from Georgetown University, where she has worked since 1986. As of June 2009, she is on long-term disability leave. She delivered the keynote address at the first Museum of Funeral Customs symposium (Springfield, Illinois), consulted with the producers of the National Geographic Channel’s Mummy Road Show, and authored 6 morbid books of her own - Death Dictionary, The Corpse, Modern Mummies, Skulls and Skeletons, Conjoined Twins, and Dissection on Display - all published by McFarland & Co.

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